Panel assembly



W. E. REED PANEL ASSEMBLY July 3, 1956 Filed April ll, 1955 m ruwe:

95u51@ ravi ovm E www zu la' t?? a en @e fy @www Patented `luly 3, 1956 PANEL ASSEMBLY Walden E. Reed, Crozet, Va., assignor to Acme Visible Records, Inc., Chicago, lll., a corporation of Delaware Application April 11, 1955, Serial No. 500,368 1 Claim. (Cl. lll-102) This invention relates to a displaceable panel assembly wherein one or more panels or frames are pivotally or swingably mounted in a holder.

It is a particular object to provide an assembly of the class described wherein the panels are securely engaged to holder and may be quickly and conveniently disengaged therefrom or replaced therein with a minimum of manipulation or moving parts.

The present invention is particularly adapted for use in visible record or index devices where quick and ready access is desired to indicia supported by the opposed faces of a panel or to expose the face of one panel covered in part by another, and where it is desirable to remove or replace the panels as a whole from time to time.

Other objects, advantages, and economies of my invention, together with the details of construction and arrangetion of the following specification and accompanying drawing which, for the purpose of illustration, shows my invention as applied to a specific form of visible index device, and wherein:

Fig. l is a plan view of a visible index device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the device of Fig. l, with several of the pivotally engaged panels thereof in elevated position.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional View on the line 3`3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, the reference numeral 10 indicates the supporting base of a Visible index unit normally adapted to rest on a horizontal surface. Secured between opposed anges of exible indicia receiving strips on one or both of the exposed faces of the panel panel structure 15. The pintle 17 than the distance between the brackets by an amount at least equal to the length of the pintle 17, so that in the absence of a member 22, which will be hereinafter explained, when a panel 15 is laterally moved with one side edge into abutment with bracket 12, its pintles 16 and 17 with bracket 11, bracket 12, and by slight canting of the panel 15 and movement thereof again in the direction of the bracket 12, pintle 16 will be withdrawn from its aperture 13 in bracket 11.

In operative use and in accordance with the present invention, I dispose liexible resilient cushioning means, such comprised of a continuous or discontinuous cushioning strip positioned closely adjacent to bracket 11.

brackets `11 and 12 project from a base forming a back of a book, with the apertures in the brackets in arcuate arrangement, in which case the bracket 12 would normally be the lower edge, and the cushioning pad Z2 adjacent the bracket 11 at the upp'er edge o'f the book.

Similarly, although not illustrated, my invention may be employed with vertical stands swingably supporting a plurality of index panels or other frame structures wherein the base is a vertical support having secured at the top and bottom thereof spaced, circular, parallel brackets formed with circumferentially disposed apertures for receptionof the panel pintles and in such case the cushioning pad would be likewise disposed o'r secured adjacent the upper bracket, all similar to the illustration of Fig. 3 when viewed in an inverted position.

It will therefore be understood that various modifications may be made in the details of my invention and its parts without departing from the spirit thereof, as more particularly comprehended by the following claim.

I claim:

In a visible index device, a pivotally supported displaceable panel assembly comprising a base, a pair of spaced parallel brackets projecting normally1 therefrom each formed with a plurality of opposed apertures, a plurality of index panel structures endwise disposed between said brackets arranged in stepped relationship on said base, a pair of oppositely laterally projecting pintles carried by each of said panel ends and journalled in said bracket apertures swingably engaging said panels thereto, one of said pintle pairs being shorter than the other and the width of said panel ends disposed between said brackets being smaller than the distance between said panels by an amount at east equal to the length of the shorter pintle, and an apertured resilient cushioning strip receiving said pintles' and disposed between the bracket and the panel ends carrying the longer pintle yieldably urging said shorter pintles into seated engagement in their holder bracket and the panels in abutment thereagainst, said panels being separately yieldably displaceable against said resilient strip to iirst disengage the shorter pintles from their bracket and to thereby subsequently permit Withdrawal of the longer pintles from engagement with their bracket and the resilient strip.

Hopkins Dec. 9, 1941 Conley et al Nov. 1l, i952 

